france is targeting the last remaining militant strongholds in the north of mali civilians in cities liberated by the french led military coalition report widespread civilian casualties. a u.s. and geo claims more than fifty countries were involved in america's notorious extraordinary rendition program some going as far as hosting cia black sites for enhanced interrogation of terror suspects r.t. asks why so many governments got involved in what activists call state sponsored kidnapping and torture. and president ahmadinejad flies into egypt in what is the first trip of its kind by an iranian leader in thirty years the visit is

seen as an attempt to improve ties between the two regional heavyweights amid rising tensions with his room. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow this is certainly glad to have you with us the french military assisted by local militia has taken the city of the last major city still controlled by islamist militants meanwhile warplanes have continued striking the remaining militant hideouts in the far north of the country the french foreign minister has hinted that the operation may be over as early as march but while the advance has been swift the conflict is already taking its toll on the civilians artie's gonzalo wants reports from the war torn country. that is their money they know what i'm going to look at today in this town in mali everyone

is celebrating the capture of two important islamist leaders one of them is mohammed the head of the. a group which reach have a can two book two for months particularly violating the rights of women he was captured along. akhmed leader of the movement for unity and jihad in west africa say he was taken north of keep close to the border with algeria the capture of these two leaders demonstrates what everyone knows the city of go and to go to by havens of security in a dangerous wilderness we were ourselves detained by the mali an army when trying to get to the city of any movement towards the north has been strictly forbidden since last weekend when six million soldiers were killed by explosives planted by rebels on the roads leading there but this risk affects the stability of the country distances in mali are so big that it is next to impossible to travel safely on the roads so now the region lacks food medicine and fuel specifically in this part of the region in mopti there are about seven thousand refugees children suffer

the most unless medication is brought into the centers treating malnutrition like the one we saw in mopti would face tragedy i mean. likely. treating malnutrition is a necessity in today's critical situation negligence was the cause of malnutrition before but now and in this crisis most children are suffering tizen as it happens in every home where children don't get enough care and could die. as that alternative syrians are being tried to deliver supplies to to book to the in the share and spread them to the north from there we also saw many people come to donate blood so desperately needed in hospitals a christian community in the central region of mali has been collecting supplies that as. the war has taken on a religious meaning and when that happens the first thing they to announce they're hunting us those who are directly linked with religion. get us out of it but i

think that here despite the fact the war is moving away the situation remains critical a country filled with refugees and deport the health and food crisis is putting eighty million people. at risk of malnutrition is that my son us about what is about a minute here on guns out of lunch or mali for r t. jo political analyst to patrick henningsen believes the war on terror is just a pretext used by some powers to tighten its grip on africa this is supposedly an african led mission but really if you look under the surface of it all these happenings in the last month or so go pills perfectly into the united states. directive agenda which has been put in place in two thousand and seven under bush and has really caught pace under the obama administration so it could be a case of this is just an entree for bigger escalation on the western powers in the future look at the government in mali is a junior military coup that took over

a democratically elected president who fell out of favor with the u.s. so again it's the king making nation building and we're going to see more and more of this enough for africa's untapped economically in the west is really racing with china to gain sort of dominance on this continent because of all the uranium the cobalt. you know tanian the lithium all the rear earth minerals the gas the oil africa is absolutely bountiful and this is going to be a battleground in the resource wars of the twenty first century and coming up later in the program on oil can't buy you love. rich in black and gold the wealthy gulf monarchies that once took pride in being some of the most stable countries in the region are now shaking under a storm of popular uprisings. a new york based ngo group has released

a report claiming fifty four countries took part in the cia's secret detention and rendition program according to the document to governments around the world aided in transportation kidnapping and torture with some even providing prisons known as . blog sites she's going to she can comments this is a very comprehensive report prepared by the open society foundations not only do they detail torture techniques that were used at cia secret prisons overseas to so-called black sites but also give a list of countries that one way or another produce appétit in cia secret detention and extraordinary rendition operations including by hosting cia prisons on their territories detaining interrogating torturing and abusing it of vigils assisting in a tour in the capture and transport of detainees and so on so the list includes countries like of galveston all australia canada denmark djibouti georgia germany syria turkey italy the united arab

emirates. united the united kingdom yemen and other countries while president bush acknowledged that the cia had secretly detained about one hundred prisoners and this report alleges that there were more the u.s. government had only identified sixteen high value detainees italy is the only country where court has criminally convicted officials for their involvement in extraordinary rendition operations canada is the only country to issue an apology to an extraordinary rendition victim here are our who was rendered to and tortured in syria only three countries in addition to canada and that is swayed in australia and the united kingdom have issued compensation hoops ordinary rendition victims this report is rife with human rights abuses and it's clear that high ranking bush administration officials bear responsibility for authorizing human rights violations and yet no one was prosecuted because the u.s.

government has classified everything related to its torture practices any accusation would be dismissed on state secrets grounds. journalist and historian douglas valentine feels the anti terror measures enforced by america are overzealous. it's what draws by the u.s. congress by certain very important congress people who believe that they are reflecting the will of the american people in a way go tonight eleven there was a huge outcry in america for vengeance for the united states to prove for the government to prove that it was more terrible than the people who watched the nine eleven attack and so the congress believe it had to reflect the will of the people off the law is the cia to do this since nine eleven the government has been able to maintain this attitude that it's required for security to commit crimes and. this is never been necessary before it what it exhibits is what it illustrates is

that the government has. since nine eleven a more capable propagandizing the american people by exaggerating the threats that exist in order to perpetuate which probably is a state of emergency that really doesn't exist in which the government is able to portray the united states the greatest military power that ever existed on the planet earth some of it though the person that was being bullied. the truth is exactly the opposite and still to come in the program we have more on vice president biden's euro trip after flying a visit to paris and berlin a joe biden sat down with the british prime minister and his national security chiefs for talks in london. for the first time in more than three decades and iranian leader is making an official visit to cairo president ahmadinejad is attending a muslim summit to discuss security issues with egypt's mohamed morsi earlier

journalist neil clark told my colleague bill dodd that tehran needs all the friends it can get. brown strongest ally in the arab world has now been serious serious been abroad a lot of iran this is the reason why the pro israel lobby why the americans why are the saudis etc so keen to talk a sad now there's no such moment the syrian government is about to fall but were it for any around would be even more isolated than it is today and the unit in a very dangerous position so they are what makes good sense what iran is trying to build bridges with cairo are their financial motives behind this meeting where we've got to believe the economies aren't bearing in mind the situation there in iran with all those sanctions that are appearing to have a quite an impact on the iranian economy do they both need each other i think they do and i think from morsi point of view i think as we see harty all the rest of egypt now what people are very happy with how things have gone legacy and carry on a look at it and ship it on iraq will be one way that she can say to these people

look i'm not just a us puppet i'm going to be different here so i think from his point he could get popularity at home by taking a more conciliatory line toward iran and from iranian point of view course they've been pretty good on house i mean the pro israel lobby has been very successful in getting the u.s. and other countries to pass tougher and tougher sanctions on iran he really economy is a really bad state so iran needs all the friends it can get there's no reason for iran to be isolated there's no proof it's developing nuclear weapons it's got a peaceful nuclear energy program which there's no evidence to the contrary so therefore it's it's wrong but it should be totally isolated and i'll be back with more news after a short break right here on r.t. .

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and with the top news and commentary from moscow this is r t twenty four hours a day glad to have you back with us now the gulf kingdoms of bahrain and kuwait are seeing fresh public discontent with the country's an elected rulers crackdowns on dissent have been stepped up over the last two years when the unrest began activists report that peaceful demonstrations for more rights and democracy are increasingly met with arrests and brutal force that's as if the west is being accused of turning a blind eye to violations by its key arab allies as lucy cafe offer. of course. as you. can see. life in the gulf used to look like this. but the black gold hidden beneath the sands transformed the arabian states from an hospitable deserts came storing structures of glass and steel physical testaments

to their wealth and power in a wider region known for its tinderbox tensions the gulf monarchies have stood out for their relative stability and for an oil dependent west eager for a military stronghold to counter iran the gulf became a strategic away says petro dollars have helped to insulate the gulf against economic hardships plaguing other states but not against popular uprisings now the gulf monarchies as a whole have been struggling to stave off the effects of the arab spring with varying degrees of success kuwait is largely seen as the most tolerant of the gulf countries but the worry is that the trend could be reversed activists say that it already has been political gatherings of more than twenty people are banned as are political parties and when the last opposition dominated parliament challenge the ruling authorities it was dismissed voting rules were changed to ensure critics say a more compliant parliament speaking out against the system has landed many activists in jail as for those who took to the streets to protest we were beaten up

by. the special forces. and the sound bombs and but on and after the march whoever is on the streets isn't just being detained and thrown into jail it's a struggle activists in bahrain are all too familiar with. three days after egypt's former president was ousted from power the protests began in bahrain like the kuwaitis they weren't demanding an end to the monarchy but more representation at a violent crackdown saw a shift in some of those demands because the new law to stop it is that they need in different areas against the regime. against that because i didn't stand that the situation. one thousand five hundred prison others we have. every day with the local. security forces some rounding day it is attacking the people at the king houses as in other gulf states the monarchy blames the unrest on

a radical minority they are hardliners they want to see regime change they want to implement their own style of government and impose on the rest of the population of bahrain a system of government that is totally unacceptable these demands called for a. minster style democracy captain head of style democracy in golf but critics disagree saying the protesters simply want their governments to listen i want to comes to violent crackdowns he says westminster and capitol hill simply turn a blind eye without a victims because we live in a country which have the u.s. and the united states and they don't get aboard the people they don't care about the humanity they don't care about the bahraini blood they care about the. weather in bahrain saudi arabia qatar oman or kuwait seems like this one are

becoming increasingly more common but nasa shows a always like this one show that the don't spoil well for low isn't enough to inflate the countries for people taking to the streets and demanding a major stake in their political system and unless the monarchies show themselves willing to listen their stability may prove to be a mirage to see caffein of r.t.e. kuwait. and three former opposition m.p.'s have each been sentenced to three years in prison for criticizing the amir's policies they were arrested last october after joining mass protests against new electoral laws that were just weeks before the parliamentary vote the verdict comes just a few days after another man was jailed for five years his and for his anti regime tweets analyst eric draitser says it will not react to pressure unless it comes from washington. kuwait is a client state of the united states it is part of the u.s. imperial system along with saudi arabia and qatar and bahrain and

a number of other countries so for that obvious reason because they they can't really step out of line from what the line is from washington from london and from elsewhere so if you were to have destabilization in kuwait and you were to have the western community the international community as it's called coming in damn the ruling family you will have an overthrow of that regime you will have a destabilization of the region which benefits democratic forces but which is very much detrimental to the united states and their agenda for the region the monarchies are looking around and they're seeing a democratization a wave of democratic upsurge in the region and they know that their regimes will not withstand it unless they're able to crack down on these forces and to maintain their strategic position within the imperial system so on the one hand they crack down on the opposition on the other hand they maintain very positive business relations with washington with london with paris and so forth and remember you can always stay updated with all the latest news by heading to our website r t v dot

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his mouth it could of almost being another gaffe but some a very quick to point out when he said that he talked of being delighted to have been invited to that meeting and of having spent half his life in security meetings in the u.s. but people are quick to point out you don't actually have a spoke for years on the u.s. national security council he can flat feet forgive him for that possibly he was referring to other security commitments but during his visit to downing street this is what part of what he took part in he was invited to this national security council meeting it was chaired by prime minister david cameron and it is thought that what was on the agenda and talks about there were issues such as syria afghanistan iran and north africa now it's not unheard of the foreign nationals to attend u.k. national security council meetings although it certainly is not common practice now

perhaps that's a sign of as jay biden made mention to the special relationship britain and the u.s. enjoy he spoke of the u.s. and britain as having the most open relationship that they have with any country in the world well that's all well and good but is a satisfactory relationship that everyone want to talk more about that i'm joined by a member of the u.k. independence party stephen wolf thank you very much joining us to stephen april relationships let's go into that is it really beneficial day for everyone i'm not sure it actually is i mean it should be we are and we are two countries that actually share common values in terms of our legal systems our language the way that we look at business and it should be but over the period of the years that we have this special relationship to the. churchill first calling the phrase we've seen lots of arguments between ourselves and those of the united states clearly there was a huge disagreement in the way that the british public did not want to get involved

in afghanistan we also had a disagreement in the way that we did not want to get in vietnam and only recently we've had president obama suggesting that the british people should not exercise that democrats and have a referendum of whether they should be in or outside of the european union so clearly the special relationship is often tested but there's lots of people here don't even believe that relationship is special. take a spin around the globe to take a look at some other international stories making headlines this hour serbian ultra nationalists have rallied into belgrade to protest against upcoming talks with kossovo demonstrators called the president's decision to meet with the head of the self-proclaimed republic treason they also slammed the e.u. for mediating of the talks kosovo declared its independence from serbia in two thousand and eight a move which was recognized by most of the european union. the british parliament

has approved a bill that will allow same sex couples to marry prime minister david cameron said the vote is an important step forward that will strengthen society get his consistent support of the bill caused a split in his own conservative party over a half of which voted against it just a few days ago france approved similar measures in favor of gay marriage. china has reportedly locked weapons targeting radar on a japanese naval vessel in the east china sea beijing neither confirmed nor denied tokyo's allegations the incident comes amid ongoing tension over a chain of islands both countries consider their own dispute has already sparked several violent protests and strained relations between the two. british officials have hit the panic button over concerns about an influx of job seekers from romania and bulgaria who will soon have unrestricted access to the

e.u. a negative advertising campaign has been launched to make the u.k. less appealing to potential migrants are the reports bucharest has been quick to respond. we have show many things going for our country the english language testing times brilliant history very creative people some of the best universities in the world a great place to do business we need to stand up and shout about how great britain is and get people to come and invest and visit but that's not the message for everyone the u.k. government is reportedly brainstorming ways to dissuade eastern european immigrants from coming to britain come january twenty fourth teen twenty nine million romanians and bulgarians will be able to live and work anywhere in europe including the u.k. one idea being considered a negative advertising campaign about broken britain while the government considers that some creative brits have been all too happy to expose their nation's flaws for

all to see as you can imagine not all the romanians living in the u.k. are cleaning the toilets some of them are highly qualified they've done their studies there so they find this very aggressive and under society campaigning as one minister percinet a negative ad campaign would help to correct the impression that these streets are paved with gold but even considering how to put off would be migrants the british government has managed to offend not one but two whole countries and now one rumania newspaper has decided that rather than getting mad it's going to get even instead. the romanian spoof campaign says that since it's so tough in the u.k. the brits should come to remain a danger by the british people to come to romania are going there here half of our women look like aids and the other half like her sister so this is a funny campaign but if you can see behind it there's actually

a serious message which is that romania had still valuable resources intelligence and humor and britons to take advantage of this next wave. immigrants instead of marking there but the debate over immigration in the u.k. is growing more hostile some ministers have suggested limiting remaining in symbolic areas access to health services and housing when they arrive but with the financial crisis getting worse britain isn't as attractive as it was to migrants a decade ago english somehow managing that everybody in the world wants to come to england because in the new jobs in the most finest greatest country. in which people it is that they seem to forget that in the case of remaining friends and remain as a beautiful country loving warm exciting country to live in today when they produce these statistics about thirty million remain. everybody's going to leave

and then the last one to light isn't going to be a single person often and then it really is nonsensical whether or not the anti britain campaign will ever make it to a billboard near bucharest is now besides the point the british government has already made us members feel that little bit less welcome here. r.t. london. and after the break we've got a special report on the anti-corporate occupy movement which has swept across the u.s. and across the world as well. please speak to language. programs in documentaries in arabic in

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